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Surfinglizard 11:10 Wed Jan 18
Antonio Comments to the BBC today - it ain't working

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64325548

Interested to know what you think of this

Eerie Descent 1:43 Sat Jan 21
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I remember first time Moyes was here, he dropped him from the squad because he was unfit, overweight, and kept turning up late for meetings.

Now, at the age he's at, and the trouble we're in, you'd think given how long he's been here and the backing he's had form the club and fans, he'd be knuckling down, doing everything he could to make sure the club stays up.

Instead, he's coming out with shit like this, also he's publicly said that he'll fuck off if he's not starting, all while producing absolute filth on the pitch, looking like he doesn't give a fuck.

I find it utterly embarrassing that a player so poor technically, so brainless, is our record Premier League goalscorer. I cannot wait til he's gone to be honest.

OccupyGreenStreet 1:06 Sat Jan 21
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The PL refs favouring the CBs over Mickey when he backs into them on the long out ball has been a factor in why he’s no longer so effective in counter attack transitions. But whatever, it’s not working and we can’t just turn back the clock as all the players have got old together.

eusebiovic 12:38 Sat Jan 21
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To be honest the bloke is completely burnt out.

Two seasons of being a battering ram at the tail end of your career will probably do that.

He hasn't said anything we can't all see...

the exile 6:43 Thu Jan 19
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It's not been working for Antonio either since he started playing in clown shoes.

Iron2010 3:52 Thu Jan 19
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I think Antonio sums the situation up perfectly in this interview.

Full Claret Jacket 3:45 Thu Jan 19
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He should be looking at himself. Nowhere near a big enough presence on the pitch and I could accept him not scoring if he was having a positive impact on our play. Just anonymous, walking around puffing with a body builders physique and no athleticism like he used to have.

Sir Alf 3:27 Thu Jan 19
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More teams changed how they set up against us and the players like Antonio got too old and don’t fit trying to play any other way Imo

We had to change but Moyes and coaches have failed dismally to do it.

goose 3:25 Thu Jan 19
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lol

so when we buy players to keep possession and plan to keep possession - we are actually worse at it than before.

surely this suggests that what we do on the training ground isnt working?

Jaan Kenbrovin 3:20 Thu Jan 19
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To disprove this possession based philosophical change, the last two seasons we have been 15th and 13th for possession. With 44 and 47%. This season we are 16th again with 44%.

Nothing has changed except our inability to create goals.

Crassus 3:04 Thu Jan 19
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We must be getting close to having more strikers in the PL era than our leading goal scorer in that era has goals

Ron Eff 3:02 Thu Jan 19
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The fact this plum is our record Premier League goalscorer says everything about our record with strikers. A bit embarrassing really, likewise his cardboard cut out celebration.

He has to have the worst football brain of any player we’ve ever had. He used to pull his hamstring trying to shoot as hard as he possibly could from a ridiculous angle rather than pull it back for a team mate. He’s seems to have sorted his hamstring issues, but is absolutely finished at the top level. We’d do very well to move him on.

Jaan Kenbrovin 2:59 Thu Jan 19
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‘West Ham have tried to change their "philosophy" to compete for a Champions League place but the "transition into a big team" is not working.’

Hahaha. There hasn’t been any change of philosophy. We’ve just slowly slipped back to the same toothless pile of shit we were when Moyes first took over.

Russ of the BML 2:05 Thu Jan 19
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He's right. It's not working.

I don't agree with his view of why.

SurfaceAgentX2Zero 1:14 Thu Jan 19
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His comments, taken with the arrival of Ings, suggest he's on his way.

If so, he goes with my thanks and best wishes for the future. He's welcome back any time as far as I'm concerned. Let's not let the past year sour the recollection of the previous seven.

I don't know whether his comments are correct or not, but I suspect they are sincere and are aimed in the same direction as the fans aim their grievances.

Eerie Descent 1:08 Thu Jan 19
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Not the sharpest tool in the box, is he.

He's done well for us, mostly given his all, but I cannot wait till he's no longer at the club. Such a poor technical footballer, and the amount of times he's had a pointless shot when he should have made an easy pass, I'll be glad to see the back of that.

threesixty 12:02 Thu Jan 19
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I don’t really agree with Antonio here. And to be honest, I think it’s easier to asses from the outside what the problem is than from where he is because he is part of the problem. So he will have an inherent bias.

I don’t see a change in formation at all over the last 2 years. He may have brought in players that are used to or need possession but he’s put them in to exactly the same formation.

So I don’t understand how you can want to move to a possession based game if your formation is still set up for counter attacking teams!

If we were playing possession based football we would be losing by more goals because we would require less defensive positions and want our players to push up and overload the opposition. But we don’t really do that.

The issue to me is that we are stuck in no man’s land. Moyes talks about expansive football but just wants to defend all day and he can’t get it out of his system. Yes, the games are tight in terms of goals against us. But at the expense of scoring because we just don’t commit players properly in the final third.

On top of that he’d need to sacrifice Soucek to make any possession based football work because soucek is not very good on the ball. Also Antonio isn’t that great on the ball either so he would lose out here.

none of it makes sense.

Far Cough 10:17 Thu Jan 19
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. . 11:18 Wed Jan 18
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The last time I can remember us playing exciting football was when Moyles was off with Covid

I believe that also

BRANDED 10:13 Thu Jan 19
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We’re bottom. Of course its not fucking working.

Stevethehammer 9:17 Thu Jan 19
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Well, he is right
It aint working

Texas Iron 3:40 Thu Jan 19
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He didn’t write it

Too many big words…

🤡🤡🤡🤡

Sir Alf 2:41 Thu Jan 19
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Antonio’s finished at the top level of the game. He was always “punching”’but Moyes converting him into a striker went to his head.

The blokes living in cuckoo land.

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